Daily Mail's barefaced double standards over X Factor final pics

The X Factor final ... Christina Aguilera in more family-friendly form. Photograph: ITV

"Simulated sexual moves", "sort porn imagery" and "suggestive poses in nothing more than stockings, knickers and bras". Today's Daily Mail gets itself into a right old lather about the performances by Christina Aguilera and Rihanna on The X Factor final. Just in case you missed it, the paper reprints five of the raunchiest poses adopted by Aguilera and co on pages 6 and 7 of today's Mail. Possibly aware that it might be accused of having its cake and eating it, the paper offered up one of the all-time great headlines: "We apologise to readers but you have to see these pictures to understand the fury they've stirred". It didn't stop the accusations of hypocrisy, however; one reader's comment by someone calling themselves Driss is particularly memorable, as highlighted by Jon Slattery on his blog. "You can only laugh at the hypocrisy of the Daily Mail moaning about sex-crazed nymphs flashing their cleavage before the watershed. A quick glance at the homepage of the DM website shows the following photos: Anna Friel in low-cut red dress. Cher (the elder) and Cheryl in "lingerie-style dress". Liz Hurley in low-cut dress (and mention of her unsexy husband). Jordan and her ample cleavage Yulia Voronin in a bikini. Jade Ewen in a bikini." Possibly you have to be a regular reader of Mail Online to know who Yulia Voronin and Jade Ewen are.

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